So as our team has been finally decided. I believe it`s time to start recording everything happened from now.
I typed #1 because I HOPE that I can do this report once per week. To make this thing continuous.
So the reason I start writing this thing is because i just finished the ppt for my first interim. I was thinking about writing some drafts about what I`m going to say. So I won`t make a scene of myself. I asked my partner to help me getting some primary resources about Guildhall allyship problems but I got no reply so…
Let`s hope that my partner is still working on that. Besides he/she said to come to the interim, that`s actually pretty nice.
And yes, I have not yet met my partner yet. So I don`t know how to call him/her.
That`s why this report will be almost all of myself talking about my ideas. Which probably means it`s boring and full of non-sense.
I only have 60-90 seconds so I narrow the whole “definition of intersectional allyship ” down to two parts. The idea of this fim is to speak of these two things:
To understand intersectionality.
To understand the importance of Allyship.
I am going to talk about one story about a office lady. She was the head of the department. She was asked to do a speech for her fellow collegues. She prepared the speech well and wrote down ideas she thought would be best for her company.
She walked to the stage and start talking, but later she found out that no one was paying attention. People were palying their phones, staring at their computers. No one was paying enough attention she deserved to have during that meeting.
When she spoke, people interrupted.
When she stated one opinion, people rejected. However later when others stated the same idea, people agreed.
Sooner or later she found out that she was the only female in that room.
And this is not fictional plot. This is the exact same experience shared by this lady during her TED Talk about allyship.
She also argues that in that meeting room, she was obviously discriminated through sexism.
However, there are much more factors that affect people`s situation in today`s society.
Gender,racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQIA+, Veterans, disabilities and a lot more.
These different forms of discrimination sometimes combines themselves. which means sometimes solving one of them or solving them individually may not be enough.
That office lady is not alone. The society she lived in is complex. Where all of us influence others in different ways. To understand this intersectional influence we are having is crucial.
The point of Intersectionality is to understand that under a complex social system, people may be experiencing different kinds of discrimination at the same time. That sometimes when different inequalities add up, they form something that may not be solved by common ideas.
And we already know what will happen if those things continue to happen. The problem exists way back. It draws life from the root of society and was and is causing serious problems.
I was not so sure how to show the importance of allyship and how serious the problem is. My plan for now is to play some photographs to show the problem. Still animation is better.
I will do some of them but still, the ideas have not came to me yet.
At this stage I have this:
These are the consequences where things goes horribly wrong. The problems we are talking about has taken root long before. This cannot be changed in one night. The work spans generations and has to be done step by step. The idea must flow and pass to the next.
……Well that is what I was thinking about this speech. There is some moodboards and sentences I made. They are pretty boring so I didn`t put them up here.
That`s it. The first report. Let`s hope we will have the second one.